| Description |
358 pages : photographs, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
All the worse for the fishes -- Patience, skill, luck, and money -- Play with microbes -- The people's department -- To see the problem clearly -- Man of the soil -- Satans into seraphs -- The little stranger -- Disturbing proportions -- Epilogue : the adaptability of the chemist. |
| Summary |
Describes the history of the discovery of antibiotics, including the eccentric characters whose false starts and lucky accidents led to humans having much greater control over the microbes that resulted in previously deadly infections. |
| Subject(S) |
Antibacterial agents -- History.
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Antibiotics.
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| ISBN |
9780525428107 (hardcover) |
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0525428100 (hardcover) |
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